HUNTING

March 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1992-1993 hunting season

closed with a spate of killings by hunters

apparently desperate to shoot anything.

Victims included three rare trumpeter swans,

shotgunned January 1 on the Winterthur

Museum grounds in Wilmington, Delaware; a

tame deer slain at the St. Clair County

Humane Society in Port Huron, Michigan,

January 4; 13 cows killed in Clay County,

Missouri, between Christmas and New Year’s

Day; and three dairy cows killed near

Warsaw, Ohio, on January 16. Michael

Adamson, 20, of Barberton, Ohio, and a 17-

year-old companion face charges in the latter

case. Ronald Smith, 30, and his infant

daughter escaped injury December 30 when

hunters trying to jacklight rabbits––after mid-

night–– sprayed the baby’s bedroom with gun-

fire. Charles W. Tipton, 44, of Lorain,

Vivisection

December 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The winter 1992/1993 edition of

National Boycott News, a well-reputed

annual directory of boycotts, includes

detailed coverage of the ongoing boycott of

Carme Inc., a cruelty-free cosmetics manu-

facturer acquired by International Research

and Development Corp. in 1989. The boy-

cott, called but not recently promoted by

PETA, might be forgotten by now except

that attorneys for IRDC, a major animal-

testing laboratory, have threatened numer-

ous protesters and media who have covered

the situation with lawsuits––including

National Boycott News, when the editors

offered them the opportunity to respond to

various allegations made by boycott litera-

ture. IRDC did sue two cruelty-free dis-

tributors who dropped the Carme product

line. The case was settled out of court by

the firms’ insurance companies.

Agriculture

December 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

“If the livestock industry demonstrates good

faith toward animal advocacy, it should suffer little eco-

nomic impact from increased regulation to enhance animal

contentment,” Ohio State University agricultural economists

Carl Zulauf and Matthew Krause recently told Feedstuffs

readers. Zulauf and Krause assumed that consumers would

be willing to pay marginally higher prices for animal prod-

ucts to be assured that they were not obtained by cruel meth-

ods. Some individual farmers would be hurt by obligatory

changes of method, they said, but others would prosper,

and the overall net effect would be nil. Much of the cost of

replacing equipment and facilities would be absorbed into

the ongoing cost of upkeep. Zulauf and Krause did not con-

sider the possibility that consumers might continue to move

toward vegetarianism at the unprecedented pace of the past

decade––a trend that could encourage many farmers to

abandon animal production.

Pressure from Shedd aquarium squelches expose

November 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

CHICAGO, Illinois––The sched-

uled October 10 debut of Modern Animal

News TV on WGBO-TV Channel 66 was

twice postponed and then cancelled by station

management under pressure from the Shedd

Aquarium. The program was to focus on the

capture of two beluga whales in northern

Manitoba, Canada, last August, and their

subsequent death at the Shedd on September

25, apparently from overdoses of worm med-

icine.

Performing Animals

November 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Wild Willie, the bull who was castrated

in front of the Mississippi State University foot-

ball team in early September, has been saved

from the slaughterhouse by Frank Truitt, a steak-

eating Army Reserve recruiter, and insurance

salesman Billy Walker, a hunter, Truitt and

Walker paid $2,000 apiece for Wild Willie, but

hope to recoup their money by using him in com-

mercial promotions.

Tactics & Actions

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* PETA recently staged the first demonstration

against meat-eating to be held in Moscow, Russia,

since Leo Tolstoy’s time. Inasmuch as the picket signs

were apparently all in English, for the benefit of American

and British TV crews, Russian patrons were mostly puz-

zled. The vegetarian movement Tolstoy championed is

today little known in Russia; Lenin and Stalin viciously

repressed it, viewing the back-to-the-land philosophy that

went with it as counter-revolutionary. Further, while most

Russians are used to going without meat for prolonged

periods due to shortages, fresh fruit and vegetables are also

often scarce and expensive—and tofu was unheard of,

until a small Hare Krishna restaurant introduced it two

years ago. The American Fund for Alternatives to Animal

Research has moved to remedy the situation, wiring

$4,343 to the Center for Ethical Treatment of Animals in

Moscow on August 17. According to CETA president

Tatyana Pavlova, the funds will go toward a computer,

laser printer, and essential software, which in turn will be

used primarily to publish information on vegetarianism.

Fur

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* Fur Free Friday will be November 27

this year—the day after Thanksgiving, the

traditional start of the peak fur sales season.

Friends of Animals and Animal Rights

Mobilization are coordinating events in

numerous locations. Get details from FoA at

212-247-8120, and from ARM at 303-388-

7120.

* The Committee of Jews for

Compassion is taking out a series of full-page

ads in Jewish newspapers to publicize Tel

Aviv chief Sephardic rabbi Haim David

Halevi’s recent ruling that Jewish law forbids

manufacturing or wearing fur because it for-

bids causing pain to animals. Write CJC c/o

CHAI, P.O. Box 3341, Alexandria, VA

22302.

Defenders of Animal Rights shelter picketed

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

PHOENIX, Md. — Weekly protests

outside the Defenders of Animal Rights shel-

ter just north of Baltimore commenced on

August 14, coordinated by the Animal

Welfare League of Greater Baltimore. The

protesters, including former shelter employ-

ees and volunteers, alleged unrecorded

euthanasias, financial abuses, and miscella-

neous other irregularities paralleling some of

those alleged against Primarily Primates one

month earlier, also by former volunteers and

staffers. Several protesters contacted ANI-

MAL PEOPLE, including AWLGB president

Elizabeth Kirk, but none documented any-

thing at DAR that substantially deviates from

common shelter practice., nor did they pro-

vide evidence that anyone at DAR is collect-

ing unusually high remuneration.

KKK defends pigeon shoot; 2,000 protest Labor Day bird massacre but 5,000 support it. Time for new tactics?

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

HEGINS, PENNSYLVANIA — A pigeon hit point-blank by a shotgun blast looks

like a spreadeagled angel for just a split second, until the pellets tear her white breast and wings

to pieces and she flaps to the ground, awaiting the trapper boys who will wring her head off.

Wounded angels to some, doves of peace to others, and flying rats according to the

human participants, 5,000 to 7,000 pigeons are shotgunned each Labor Day at the Fred Coleman

Memorial Pigeon Shoot in Hegins, Pennsylvania. Held annually since 1934, the shoot was

reputedly dying of disinterest a half century later; but no more. Two thousand protesters turned

out this year, nearly double last year’s then-record number. Lured by the chance to heckle, be

on TV, and maybe see someone get killed dashing in front of the guns to save pigeons, the

crowd of shoot supporters doubled as well, to an estimated 5,000. Among them were several

motorcycle gangs and two robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan members from Ephrata, Penn., who

explained that they saw the event as a good chance to recruit.

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